US4775243A - Mixing and kneading apparatus - Google Patents

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US4775243A
US4775243A US06/923,591 US92359186A US4775243A US 4775243 A US4775243 A US 4775243A US 92359186 A US92359186 A US 92359186A US 4775243 A US4775243 A US 4775243A
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    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
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    • B01F—MIXING, e.g. DISSOLVING, EMULSIFYING OR DISPERSING
    • B01F27/00—Mixers with rotary stirring devices in fixed receptacles; Kneaders
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    • B01F27/70—Mixers with rotary stirring devices in fixed receptacles; Kneaders with stirrers rotating about a horizontal or inclined axis with paddles, blades or arms
    • B01F27/707—Mixers with rotary stirring devices in fixed receptacles; Kneaders with stirrers rotating about a horizontal or inclined axis with paddles, blades or arms the paddles co-operating, e.g. intermeshing, with elements on the receptacle wall

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  • the invention concerns a mixing and kneading apparatus and more particularly to an apparatus for mechanical, chemical, and thermal treatment of materials.
  • a mixing and kneading apparatus of the type shown in No. DE-2 349 106, corresponding to U.S. Pat. No. 3,880,407 exhibits a toroidal annular space formed between two adjacent disks defined by the disks, a housing and the shaft, and covered only in boundary areas by hooked-shaped kneading and scraping elements fixedly mounted on the housing. The mixing of the product within the toroidal element is not assured. This may lead to inadequate product homogeneity.
  • a further disadvantage is that product residues remain inside the toroidal space and cannot be discharged. Newly introduced product to be treated in the reactor may thereby be damaged. Therefore undesirable product mixes between the raw and the finished product may occur in a product change over.
  • a mixing apparatus with a kneading shaft bearingly supported in a cylindrical housing, with a plurality of disk elements mounted axially spaced apart on and perpendicularly to said kneading shaft and carrying a plurality of scraper edges arranged essentially transverse to the plane of the disk elements and facing the housing wall at a small distance.
  • the housing wall, the kneading shaft and the disk elements are optionally heatable and/or coolable.
  • the apparatus applies a mixing and/or transport action to the goods located therein.
  • An apparatus according to the invention avoids dead zones and uninvolved product spaces, and assures a continuous axial product transport.
  • the layout of the plowshare-like baffle surfaces further insures that the product masses revolving in the central area of the toroidal space are continuously rearranged and moved toward the heatable and coolable housing and kneading shaft surfaces.
  • the transport components are variable in an arbitrary manner by the twisted configuration of the cutting edge and the baffle surface along the preferably diagonal mixer arm.
  • a steeper slope may be provided in the vicinity of the kneading shaft in order to obtain adequate transport components in the radial and axial directions even in view of the lower peripheral velocity of the product flow prevailing in this area.
  • a particularly effective penetration of a toroidal space by the mixer arms is obtained on a layout of several mixer arms protruding into the toroidal space, their diagonal directions are arranged in a mirror image alternating with respect to a radial axis R-R.
  • baffle surfaces of the cross sectional profiles of two mixer arms diagonally offet in a mirror image layout have a configuration such that both baffle surfaces provide diverting components of the product flow in the same axial direction and in opposite radial directions in order to obtain a strong axial transport component and good contact with the heatable surfaces of the hounding and the kneading shaft.
  • accessory or auxiliary mixer arms mounted on kneading shaft, project into the radially inner product space and serve to additionally rearrange and mix the product in this area.
  • the accessory mixer arm is provided with shearing edges associated in a parallel manner with the diagonal mixer arms in a shearing gap, whereby the product is exposed to intensive shearing and squeezing.
  • the accessory or auxiliary mixer arm may carry one or two shearing edges travelling alternatingly past the diagonally, mirror image-like offset mixer arms.
  • An L-shaped scraper is mounted on the mixer arm fixedly attached to the housing to continuously clean the surfaces of the disk elements and the kneading shaft.
  • One leg of the scraper scraping the disk element and the other the kneading shaft.
  • Radially inwardly directed agitators are arranged on the ends of the scraping edges to clean the radially projecting part of the mixer arm, which also contribute to the mixing the the radially outer product space.
  • the agitators provide together with the vertically mounted part of the mixer arm an intensive mixing of the product in this area.
  • FIG. 1 shows a mixing and kneading apparatus with a partial area of the housing broken open.
  • FIG. 2 shows the partial area broken open of FIG. 1 enlarged.
  • FIG. 3 shows a section through a part of the mixing and kneading apparatus on the line III--III of FIG. 2.
  • FIG. 4 shows a section through a mixer arm and a shearing edge on the line IV--IV in FIG. 2.
  • FIG. 5 shows a further embodiment of a mixing and kneading apparatus with part of the housing broken open.
  • FIG. 1 shows a mixing and kneading apparatus with a kneading shaft 2 arranged coaxially in a cylindrical housing and bearingly supported in thefrontal walls 3 and 4.
  • the kneading shaft 2 passes through the frontal wall4 and is coupled with a drive assembly 5.
  • a filler opening 6 is located in the frontal wall 4, to cooperateer with an outlet opening 7 in the frontal wall 3.
  • kneading shaft 2, or disk elements 8 may be heated or cooled.
  • the cylindrical housing 1 shown is broken open in a central partial area inorder to display the kneading shaft 2 and other functional elements, which appear more clearly in FIGS. 2 to 4, described below.
  • FIG. 2 shows the housing 1 with the kneading shaft 2 supported therein and with the disk elements 8 placed on said kneading shaft in planes perpendicular to the axes of the shaft and the housing and extending to the inner wall of the housing while forming a gap.
  • the disk elements 8 have surfaces corresponding to a sector of 60°.
  • Three disk elements 8 are always arranged in one plane offset by 120°.
  • FIG. 3 indicates the direction of rotation.
  • the radially outer forward edges of the disk elements 8 carry transverse scraping edges 10.
  • the scraping edges 10 may be arranged at an angle to an axial generating line of the housing and define a scraping gap with the inner wall of the housing.
  • the scraping edges 10 carry radially inward directed agitators 11at their ends.
  • a mixer arm 12 is mounted centrally between two planes of disk elements 8 in the housing wall.
  • the mixer arm has a first part 12a is directed radially inward and exhibits a dog leg at an angle of 45° relative to the disk element 8 located in the left side in FIG. 2.
  • a further mixer arm 12' shown by broken lines in FIG. 2, is angled toward the right hand disk element 8 and represents the mixer arm following in peripheral direction; for the sake of clarity it is pivoted into the image plane of FIG. 2.
  • two mixer arms are provided, offset by 180° in the peripheral direction, with alternating angled directions.
  • the mixer arms 12, 12' are equipped with L-shaped scrapers 13, 13' at theirends.
  • One of each scraper is associated with the surface of the disk elements 8 and the other leg with the surface of the kneading shaft 2.
  • the angled mixer arms 12, 12' divide the toroidal space included by the inner surface of the housing 1, the kneading shaft 2 and the axially adjacent disk elements 8, into a radially outer product space P 1 , P 2 ' and a radially inner product space P 2 , P 2 '.
  • the kneading shaft 2 exhibits several, preferably two mixer arms 14 intended for use as auxiliary mixer arms.
  • the auxiliary mixer arms 14 are mounted between two axially adjacent disk elements 8 and equipped with shearing edges 15, 15' spaced apart from and parallel to the mixer arms 12, 12' diagonally projecting into the toroidal space.
  • FIG. 4 shows the cross sectional surfaces of a mixer arm 12 and a shearing edge 15 exposed to a product stream flowing in the peripheral direction.
  • the product stream is divided by a cutting edge 16 provided on the mixer arm 12 and diverted into a subsequent baffle surface 17.
  • the product stream flowing by the other side of the cutting edge is intercepted by theshearing edge 15 and subjected during its passage (arrow 18) along the stationary mixer arm 12 to an intensive squeezing and shearing action.
  • An additional diversion may be obtained by providing a baffle surface 15a. Itis possible thereby to affect the flow effects caused by the mixer arm 12, 12' as desired.
  • the cutting edge 16 extends in a straight line on the mixer arm 12 shown inFIG. 2 by a solid line, with the baffle surface 17 located in the radially outer area, whereby the product stream impacting the mixer arm 12 is caused to undergo a diversion with a radially outward directed transport component R 1 and an axial transport component A 1 directed towardthe left.
  • the cutting edge 16' extends in a curved configuration with the baffle surface 17' located in the radially inner area on the mixer arm 12' represented in FIG. 2 by broken lines.
  • the product stream impacting the mixer arm 12' is diverted with a radially inward directed transport component R 2 and a transport component A 2 directed axially to the left.
  • the cutting edge 16' may also be curving with the baffle surface 17' in a manner such that the product stream impacting the mixer arm is diverted partially in the radially outward direction and axially tothe right, and impart radially inward and axially to the left.
  • a mixer arm of this type divides the product stream into partial flows with opposing axial transport components, no uniform axial transportcomponent defined in an axial outflow direction is established, so that a mixer arm with an S-shaped cutting edge and baffle surface is used overwhelmingly for intensive intermixing. It is advantageous to use mixer arms with differently oriented baffle surfaces in succession.
  • FIG. 5 shows, in solid lines, a further embodiment of a mixer arm 22 fastened to the housing 1 and extending between two adjacent disk elements8 radially inward to the kneading shaft 2 and being angled off there into an L-shaped scraper 23, one leg of which is associated with the disk elements 8 and the other leg with the surface of the kneading shaft 2.
  • the mixer arm 22' shown in FIG. 5 by broken lines together with the L-shaped scraper 23', corresponds to a mirror image of the mixer arm 22 and its scraper 23 and is arranged in the housing in a manner offset by 180° in the image of plane of FIG. 5.
  • the radially extending mixer arm 22, 22' may also be equipped with a cutting edge and one or two baffle surfaces, whereby the revolving products may be diverted in the radial and/or axial transport direction, so that both a good flow onto the heated surfaces of the housing and the kneading shaft and a uniform axial transport of the product may be obtained.
  • the baffle surface may be curved over the radial extent of the mixer arm 22, 22' in the manner of a plowshare so that a slow component in the direction of the housing in the upper half and a flow component in the direction of the kneading shaft in the lower half are established, where auniform axial flow component in the transport direction is present.
  • the mixing and kneading apparatuses described are especially suitable for continuous operations.
  • An axial transport component is imparted to the product over the entire product space as axial components A 1 and A 2 act in the same direction.
  • the product mass from all of the areas is seized, rearranged, and conducted to the heated or cooled surfaces of the housing, the kneading shaft and the disk elements in a steady flow.
  • the mixing and kneading apparatus may also be used for a batch operation, by for example, providing only mixer arms 12, as shown in FIG. 2 by solid lines.
  • product masses from the center toroidal areas are taken constantly and transported with a radial component R 1 to the heated wall of the housing and with an axial component A 1 to the frontal wall 3 of the mixing and kneading apparatus.
  • R 1 radial component
  • a 1 axial component to the frontal wall 3 of the mixing and kneading apparatus.
  • P 2 , P 2 ' associated with the kneading shaft whereby the product is stream is intermixed further by the action of the mixer arms 14 in the form of auxiliary mixer arms and the scraper.
  • the product is discharged advantageously through an outlet fitting (not shown) located in a radiallyinner area of the frontal wall 4.

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